Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Kaufman, Herbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.